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House Roll Call 551, 105th Congress · October 30, 1997

Nuclear Waste Policy Act — (HOUSE PASSED H.R. 1270, TO AMEND THE NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY ACT OF 1982. .)

Question before the chamber: On Passage

307 yea · 120 nayPassed6 not voting or present
Democrat106 yea · 96 nay
Republican201 yea · 23 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1270

Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1997

Policy area: Environmental Protection — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • Climate & EnergyDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Nuclear waste repository policy does not directly align with the fossil fuel versus climate action axis.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Environmental Protection

    Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (307)

Nay (120)

Not voting or present (6)

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